Hard drive upgrade macbook pro

wjosten wrote:

Yep.

Thanks.

Hi, he mentiones in the post that that doesnt apply if your running snow leopard. Can you or anybody confirm this. Is it not posible to clone with carbon cooier and replace hdd if you are still running snow leopard?

If you're running SL, can still use the free version of CCC. Mountain Lion-compatible version is no longer free. 😠

Ok, so its has nothing to do with the drive. I actually have a ccc registered version. So it shouldnt be a problem, right?

Hi guys, I've recently upgraded a Seagate 500GB hard drive on my MBP too. But I noticed that I've stopped getting the clicking sound on the "sudden motion sensor" whenever I move my MBP. Is this sensor built-in in the original hard drive only or it is on a different mechanism encasing the hard-drive?

Thanks.

(17jan2013) Just completed drive upgrade and learned some things:

1. Properly partition the new drive GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme
2. Eject, Remove and reboot, then replug external drive before test bootability
3. Remove the torx screws from the side of your old drive and put them in your new drive
4. Paralells 8.0.1810 seemed to transfer fine (has a Windows 7 partition)

(see below)

2010 MacBook 13" (AKA fembot) (2.4 gHz Intel, 4gb RAM, Hitachi 250?gb, Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2 )

Process:

Read this thread and https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4122

Bought a Sabrent external USB drive enclosure (EC-3US25) and

Installed a Seagate Momentus 5400rpm drive ( we call this newEX)

Connected this newEX to my fembot and

Ran Disk Utility, partitioned and formatted new hard drive (still in external enclosure)

again Read this thread and https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4122

On the MacBook:

Run Recovery Disk Assistant - make a usb stick of my OS recovery

Remove mp3's and movies that I could copy back later (makes your cloning faster)

Run Time Machine on the original drive

Run Disk Utility verify and repair permissions, verify and repair disk (original drive)

Download and install Carbon Coder 3.5.2, read their directions

Realize that I had partitioned newEX as Master Boot Record rather than GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme

(this is essential for making the new drive Bootable - more info on Carbon Coder website)

(1) Ran Disk Utility again On the new drive still in external enclosure, properly partition using GPT

Start Clone (Carbon Coder will hold your hand, just read the screen and the help docs)

Copying 200gb took a few hours

Test bootability of new Clone: Restart, hold down Option key, after boot, look at About This Mac

What? Still says the old volume... tried this 3 different ways, finally by fluke...

(2) Turned Mac off, removed external enclosure, booted from original drive okay! Turned it off.

Hooked up newClone, booted with option key, okay. Now it worked. Bootability confirmed!

Probably could have just ejected and shut down, then reboot w/ Option key. Whatever.

Now... since i have time to kill, i go to apple store.

"Here's my drive, its golden, replace it for me. I'm still on Apple Care."

Kid, "Sir, we can only sell you a new drive and do that."

"Bye"

So back at the pad... hmm... should I look for that Torx before I start? Nah.

At the kitchen table on a place mat (clean):

Flip the mac, use the screwdriver that came with the Sabrent and

Remove the screws from bottom of case and place them in a tea cup

Pull the bottom case panel, get a clean cloth and wipe 2 years of dust

Find the drive, remove the 2 black screws from the outside edge

on the other side of the drive, Loosen 2 black screws and lift up and remove the bar

Lift up drive and pull cable connector gently away

(3) use Torx to remove screws from side of old drive - this is how it is held in place in the case

Place torx screws in 4 side holes of new drive, firm, not loose, not permanent

Place (gently) connector of ribbon cable

Lay drive in place (or dust under there first)

Replace black screws and clamp bar

Dust a bit inside your machine, eh?

Replace lid, and screws (firm)

Now... hold your breath. Boot your mac with your new drive.

Test your old drive in the enclosure, Etc. etc. etc.

Run time machine on your new drive (oops, haven't done that yet)

Paralells 8.0.1810 seemed to transfer fine but frankly Mountain Lion seems to have made that excrutiatingly slow. Perhaps evil apple wants me to buy a faster Intel chip and more RAM? That means a new machine.

Oi. Thanks for all the input

This was a great post!! Thanks

g'day, i'm got a macbook4,1 pro with xp on bootcamp and need a bigger hd.

just wondering if you got yours done ,and the best way to go about it ,or what did you find that worked successfully for you.

love to hear from you.

thanks

jim

flatoutt@gmail.com

When I startup after cloning and inserting the new drive I'm getting the Question Mark folder icon and can't get past it. Any help would be appreciated!

Can anyone suggest a good powered enclosure? I'm struggling to find anything powered or rated well on reviews in the uk?

OWC, who ship internationally, have a great number of powered enlcosures.

Clinton

We could recommend scads of good products here in the Americas. However, getting them to your side of the Big Pond will cause Her Majesty's Vicious Rabid Taxman to go wild and cause a significant cost hike. If you can locate local alternatives, we could give you an opinion instead.

is a dual USB enclosure out of the question as out of the few powered enclosures i have seen they are 4/5 times the cost!

Could check and determine whether it can run on a single drive. Probably in RAID1/Mirror configuration.

And you should open your own thread instead of jacking a closed one.

Thank you @willbro9 for the tutorial. It worked for me flawlessly.

To add a few things from my experience that people had been asking about.

I used this non-powered enclocure bought from Amazon for $8.99 and had no problems with it:

Vantec NexStar TX 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure

I was concered since people said definitely use a powered case but I could not find a good one really, or almost any for that matter, so I just tried it with the Vantec and no problems plugging it into the main USB 2 port on my spring 2010 MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard.

I bought this new 1TB HDD:

Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014

Carbon Copy Cloner allowed me to use the free 30 day trial version and to clone about 300GB of data over USB 2 to the new drive took about 5 hours. I had every app closed of course on my MacBook and just let it do its thing, not using the laptop at all during that cloning process.

One thing to note, don't be alarmed when the new drive in the external enclosure does not mount when you first plug it in and you get some message I had never seen before. Just choose the "investigate" or option or something like that (two other choices were cancel and mount) and then go to Disk Utility and format as mentioned in the tutorial above.

After the cloning was completed, I unmounted the external HDD, then restarted my MacBook. Then I plugged the cloned externall HDD back in, restarted the MacBook holding the option key and it booted successfully to the new cloned drive in the external case.

Then I shut everything down and installed the new cloned drive in my MacBook which was very simple to do.

About the Seagate hybrid drive, I was concerned it was only 5400rpm but so far it seems I have a faster system overall, and apps definitely launch quicker (something that used to take an ice age for me with the Seagate 7200rpm drive it came with). Seems very quiet too this new hybrid drive.